preadolescence

See also: préadolescence

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ adolescence.

Noun

preadolescence (uncountable)

  1. The period between childhood and adolescence, between the ages of about 9 and 11 for girls, and 10 and 12 for boys.
    • 2017, Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Bloomsbury Circus, page 270:
      Jojo gains what Pop’s lost of his bearing. First, a brace across his thighs, all the bowlegged softness of his preadolescence dissolved to a granite stance.

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